How to grow sweet corn?

I love to garden and I have been gardening on and off all of my life. I love to be able to raise my own vegetables and herbs etc.

Sweet corn is a very tasty vegetable no matter how you fix it. They can be foiled and slathered with butter or maybe we put them on a  barbecue to grill them. I have found that corn is the best when they are first picked immediately after harvest. all the times that I have planted corn, I have planted them in rows in the garden, along with some of my other crops that I am growing. Corn can be grown in containers, but I have not yet tried this.

What I like about raising corn is you sow the seeds during the same time that I am planting my other vegetables. So I get my ground ready then I decided where I am going to plant which vegetables I sow my sweet corn in the spring through the first half of summer and I then will be harvesting my sweet corn later summer through fall.

After I planted my sweet corn, I know that I must keep them well-watered throughout the summer, especially when the plants are in flower and the cobs are developing. I am always protecting my plants from snails and slugs, and I also keep weeds away from my sweet corn plants, I am checking the cobs, and I check the tassels coming from the cobs and it turns, brown. I gently peel back the outer leaves of the cobs so I can check the maturity of the kernels. When I see that my sweet corn is ready to harvest, I do my harvesting right away, because if the sweet corn is not picked as soon as they are mature, the corn turns starchy and lose a lot of its sweetness if the corn is left on the plant too long. After I have picked my corn, I will leave some in the refrigerator for a few days to have them fresh for my family and the other corn we  will freeze to eat later on.

I would like to talk about some different varieties of sweet corn that are real good tasting. "Indian Summer" is one that grows best in warmer climate. This corn is very good and the cobs has a multi-colored appearance and I can use some of these for decoration for fall, Halloween and Thanksgiving. "Butterscotch" is a variety that matures early and it has sweet cobs that freezes well which is good for me.

"Minipop" is one I have to pick when they get finger-size. This one also produces a larger crop which is good for us. There are many different varieties of sweet corn that I didn't talk about that you might want to check out for your own garden.